[DeTomaso] New DB Starter Arrived (Re: New DB Starter broke before it even got used.)

[Asa Jay Laughton]

My new replacement DB starter arrived today, and with it came a nice UPS 
return shipper label.  The broken one is all boxed up and ready to go.  
No complaints.  I didn't get to install the replacement yet, I'll 
probably do that tomorrow.

Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired

& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA

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MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/12/09 9 01 21, asajay at asajay.com writes:
>
>
>   
>> I picked up some longer studs for the replacement starter yesterday and
>> promptly installed them.  I then got the starter in and began hooking up
>> wires.  As I was tightening the positive battery cable, the stud broke
>> right off before I even had any torque on it.  So now, I'm left with a
>> brand new starter and a stud on the solenoid that is too short to use.
>>
>>     
>
> Been there, done that with one of Dennis Quella's starters.   The stud is 
> the weak link; it's actually an ordinary bolt that drops into a 
> bolt-head-shaped recess on the inside of the solonoid body.   When you tighten it down, 
> the solonoid body just snaps and the thing is ruined.
>
> Mine broke at the track in Vegas last year; I mentioned it to Dennis 
> Quella, and a few days after I got home, a new solonoid appeared at my doorstep, 
> gratis.
>
> Good guy, that Dennis!
>
> Mike
>
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